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(The movie becomes overly cute here, twisting their conversation to keep both from revealing their species.) Eventually they must look for their homes, but they resolve to meet again the next day, and to recognize each other by the phrase “one stormy night”. They cannot see each other, or smell each other because of the wind, but huddle together for warmth.
He gets separated from the other goats and takes shelter in a deserted, pitch-black barn. Some time later, a powerful storm strikes the area with winds strong enough to blow Mei over. Mei’s mother is killed, but not before she scars the face and tears the ear off the wolf leader, Giro. Mei’s mother sacrifices herself to give Mei enough time to escape back to the herd.
Mei, a small kid, is foraging with his mother when they are attacked by wolves. One Stormy Night has better production values, but seems aimed at even younger children. It should be noted that both Ringing Bell and One Stormy Night were based upon popular Japanese children’s books, by Takashi Yanase and Yūichi Kimura respectively. It was never released in America, theatrically or on DVD, but it was known to American fans from the illegal video copies. When Arashi no Yoru ni came along 25 years later, it reminded many in Japan and the anime fans in America very much of Chirin no Suzu so I am including it here even though it was definitely a theatrical feature in Japan. Admittedly, the Japanese animators have not given the voice actors much to work with here. The voice dubbing on Ringing Bell seems unusually bad, with the voices seldom matching the animation’s lip movements. This is one of those titles that people today say they dimly remember seeing as a child, but nobody else has ever heard of it or believes them. He wanders out into the snowstorm and is never seen again. Chirin is now the protector of the sheep, except that they are all terrified of him and shrink from him as though he was another wolf. Chirin stabs the wolf with his horns, and the dying wolf says that he is proud to have trained Chirin so well. They break in, but Chirin remembers his mother sacrificing herself for him, and he challenges the wolf to protect the sheep. In winter, they return to the byre within which all the sheep live.
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At times he thought that he was going to die.” After two years, Chirin grows into an adult ram and the wolf takes him on as a full partner. “The day never passed when Chirin did not suffer from the pain from his lessons.
Chirin yells that he is tired of being a helpless sheep, and he wants to become the wolf’s apprentice and learn to become a scary predator.Īt first all the animals laugh at the baby lamb, but he finally impresses the wolf by his perseverance into accepting him as his apprentice. Chirin is traumatized by her death, in an extended scene that must have scared little children who watched it.Ĭhirin, still a cute baby lamb, goes beyond the fence to challenge the Wolf King for vengeance. Chirin’s mother is killed protecting him. Chirin does not pay any attention to her.ĭuring winter, the sheep are cozy in their byre when the Wolf King breaks in. His worried mother warns him to remain in the meadow inside the fence, because the mountains beyond are the Wolf King’s domain. The opening credits featuring plaintive, mournful music under a bleak, characterless, snow-filled landscape do not seem to match the opening story of Chirin as a happy baby lamb, gamboling within his flock during the bright summer.
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and shown as a TV children’s film, but its switch from the opening of traditional Disney-cartoon lightness to a dark Law-of-the-Jungle brutality earned it a very mixed critical reception, ranging from praise for its honesty to a R-rating for violence, and being banned in some countries as unsuitable for children. it was shown on TV and was one of the first animated cartoon videos in the early 1980s, from RCA/Columbia Home Video. But it was intended primarily for the OAV market. Ringing Bell was produced by Sanrio and released in Japan on a theatrical double bill with its 83-minute The Mouse and His Child. These two were actually theatrical releases, not OAVs. One Stormy Night ( Arashi no Yoru Ni), directed by Gisaburo Sugii. Ringing Bell ( Chirin’s Bell Chirin no Suzu), directed by Masami Hata.
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